App-based rides could be coming to Nashville

Smartphone service Uber looks to enter local market

9:46 AM,
Nov. 3, 2013

Written by

Michael Cass
| The Tennessean

A company that uses a smartphone app to connect people needing rides with private car services is looking to enter the Nashville market.

A controversial Metro ordinance requiring a $45 minimum fee for rides in vehicles for hire has kept San Francisco-based Uber, which has become a fixture in big cities ranging from New York to Charlotte, N.C., out of Music City. Now Uber, a four-year-old software company that's in about 30 cities nationwide and about 20 other countries, is hoping to get the law changed.